ROFL! Apparently amnesia is one of the disorders contributing to the denial of his crimes. We've discussed various of Trump's crimes in the past, and ...
That is a much better question. You acknowledge a future, and I assume you also acknowledge a past. This suggests a ordered relation: past->present->f...
They do, but IMO it's because of their faith in Trump. Trump's defense of his crimes entails blaming the system. It's reminiscent of OJ insisting LAPD...
The fiction of dragons includes "breathing fire". But fictions still can't engage in the real world activity. Do you understand my objection to the or...
Breathing is a real world activity by real world creatures. A fiction can't do this. IMO there's one ontology. Dragons are either real-world creatures...
This would imply that the set of all dragons includes all the real dragons and all the fictional creatures so-named. Some members of the set are said ...
Not necessarily. 60-70% of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen, and therefore Trump was justified in trying to remedy that situation. I d...
It would be correct to say: "the sentence: 'dragons breath fire' is true whether or not dragons exist" because: -If dragons exist, then "dragon" refer...
The probability that magical knowledge exists is low, as I discussed. This is sufficient reason to reject your conclusion prima facie that a being wit...
It's a semantic issue. The nouns have a referent. The referent could be a concept in your mind, or it could be the actual object that exists in the wo...
Why must I do that? I showed you to have a burden based on your expressed purpose of swaying some people. You've sidestepped that entirely, and are ba...
"On Thursday, at a federal courthouse in Washington state, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour—an 84-year-old Ronald Reagan appointee—delivered a s...
I absolutely agree this cannot be topped. On the other hand, this "Truth" Social post puts his abject stupidity on full display: "20 years ago, Autism...
Your premises aren't "proven" at all: you made no case for them. We agree they are possibly true (logical possibility), but your propositions (at leas...
What makes Iraqi Sesame Street "bullshit"? It's been part of the effort to restore the country to normalcy after the devastation inflicted by Bush's w...
Add manslaughter to the list of Trump's crimes: Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid Critical supplies of life-saving medi...
I'm starting with this point, because it has bearing on whether or not this discussion is worthwhile: The typical purpose of an argument is to change ...
Matter isn't an explanation; it's an explanatory hypothesis that a particular kind of thing exists.The hypothesis explains all those sensations. Newto...
I assumed you meant your second post in this thread. It says nothing about atoms or molecules. I then went that that other thread you referenced (http...
You had said, "The 'should' is entirely logical." I'm trying to understand what that means. So I gave you an example which you rejected with a reason ...
Let's focus on this point: It sounds like you might say "an electron should be attracted to a proton"? But clearly the electron has no choice in the m...
That is precisely what I've been challenging! The very point you're responding to is such a challenge! Your response should be to explain how "should"...
"Should" only applies only to choices made by beings that can make choices. It would make no sense to claim an electron "should" be attracted to a pro...
No it doesn't. I accepted that a moral value can exist. But if it's a product of "random existence", there are 2 implications: 1) it's existence is co...
There is a problem with the argument I stated: it assumes God exists. To then use the conclusion to support an argument for God's existence entails th...
Your logic in the Op was based on the assumption that objective morality exists. I'm showing that morality that is the product of a random existence c...
A moral imperative that is a "random addition" is not an objective moral value, it's a random value whose converse could have instead come to exist. I...
How do you get a relevant* moral imperative from an undesigned universe composed of matter and energy and evolving deterministically? You compared it ...
You refer to "shoulds" - which sounds to me like moral imperatives. Correct me if this is not what you mean. A red wavelength of light exists by brute...
I used the word "arbitrary" to highlight the fact there is no reason for these cosmic morals to be what they are. There can't be a reason unless there...
Your paradigm assumes there are moral values existing external to humans that were caused to exist by undirected natural forces. You have not explaine...
Read this post: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/962312 If you want more details on the math, read this post: https://thephilosophyfo...
It boils down to an initial, uncaused state of affairs. What that might be is unknown, but whatever it is, it exists for no reason. This is because to...
I was listening today to a legal podcast, and they brought up an issue I hadn't thought of, regarding the withdrawal of Secret Service protection from...
It's anachronistic. Per general relativity, mass and energy are interchangeable. What is conserved is the total amount of mass+energy (see this). Rega...
Here's what I inferred to be your reasoning: 1.God is omniscient (possesses all possible knowledge) 2. God is simple; 3. Therefore knowledge doesn't e...
I found this study, with data through 2016 (unfortunately). There seems to be an increasing trend for women to study philosophy- most apparent in the ...
Not really. The undocumented workers are making more in the US than they could in their home country. The fact we'd take advantage of that seems simil...
So it appears you have some sort of hypothesis that goodness is some sort of existing entity that we perceive, or perhaps that its a physical property...
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